Flexible pocket receptacle



Aug. 29, 1933. w R BUXTQN 1,924,910

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Patented Aug. 29, 1933 1,924,910 FLEXIBLE POCKET RECEPTACLE Warner R. Buxton, Longmeadow, Mass.

Application December 13, 1929, Serial No. 413,849

. Renewed July 25, 1932 4 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in flexible pocket receptacles, such as those adapted for containing bills, checks, notes and the like which are commonly known as bill folds.

The invention is particularly directed to an improvement in the bill fold construction disclosed in'my application for U. S. Letters Patent, filed July 16, 1928, under Serial No. 293,056, and has for its object a modification of that construction, which will enable the provision of adequate and conveniently accessible pockets for the reception of cards'and the like.

The problem to be solved is not merely the ordinary one of providing pockets but rather the problem is to provide forthe pockets by a particular construction of parts and in such a way that the desirable features and advantages of the former construction may be retained.

The invention will more particularly appear as the detailed description proceeds and will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention will be disclosed with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are plan views showing the several blanks from which the bill fold is formed;

Figs. 4 and 5 are elevational views showing the complete bill fold in open'and closed positions, respectively; and

Figs. 6 and -'7 are sectional views taken on the lines 6-6 and '7--'7, respectively, of Fig. 4.

Referring to this drawing, the bill fold is, for convenience, made in four pieces of leather or like flexible material. One of these pieces, shown in Fig. 1, comprises a substantially rectangular portion 10, forming the outer wall of the bill fold and having a central transverse crease or line of fold 11. Extending from one side edge of thewall 10 and arranged one on each side of said line of fold, are flaps 12, which are adapted to be folded along the lines of fold 13 up, over and upon the part 10. Flaps 14 are provided, one at each end of the part 10 and foldable relatively thereto along the lines of fold V 15. vThe flaps l4 serve to connect the adjacent end edges of the outer wall 10 and flaps 12, being folded inwardly to lie behind the flaps 12 and adhesively or otherwise secured thereto, as indicated in Fig. 6. The free side edge 16 of each flap 12 is short and the inner. and adjacent end edges 1'7 of these flaps are likewise short,--the side edge of each flap being connected to the end edge thereof by a substantially oblique or more strictly a curved edge 18. Foldably connected to the side and end edges 16 and 17 tabs 3.9 and 20, respectively, which serve, as will appear, to secure in place the parts shownin Fig.2.-

The two parts shown in-Fig. 2 are similar and a description of one will suflice. Each comprises a. member doubled along its median line, forming two plies 21 and 22. The part 21 is adapted to form an end section of the true inner wall ofthe bill fold and the part 22 is connected thereto to fold along a crease or line of fold 23 on the back side of the blank, as viewed in Fig. 2. The 5 parts 21 and 22 are substantially equal in width and slightly less inwidth than the flaps 12. Each part 22 is superposed on its mating part 21 and, with the folded'edges 23 uppermost, these folded parts are slipped in place, as indicated, one between each flap l2 and the outer wall 10. The tabs 19 are then folded down and adhesively or 1 otherwise secured, one to the back face of each part 21. If desirable, although not always necessary, the parts 21 and 22 may be still further secured in place by turning in the tabs 20 to lie in back of the parts 22, one near each inner lower corner thereof,--such tabs being adhesively or otherwise secured to the parts 22.

The twov sets of folded parts 21 and 22, when in place, form tubularsections, strictly open along the bottom edge although the bottom of the tube is for all practical purposes closed by the lower portions of the walls 10 and'12, as will be .clear from Fig. 7. The inner wall of the bill fold is completed .by an intermediate section 24, shown separately in Fig. 3. This section 24 bridges across the gap between the end sections 21 and has its ends slidably received one in each of the aforesaid tubes. The intermediate section is, however, preferably entirely free from connection to the walls of such tubes. The advantages, to some degree, can however be obtained if the sliding piece 24 is fixed to the walls of one tube, being left free to slide in the other. Section 24 has a central transverse crease, ,.or line of fold 25, which is adapted to coincide substantially with the line of fold 11 of the outer wall. The crease 25, when the bill fold is folded along the crease 11 to superpose one half upon the other into the closed position shown in Fig. 5, tends to work its way into the crease 11. Thus, the sliding piece 24, even though it becomes dislodged from its proper centralized position, will be centralized each time the bill fold is closed.

The parts, constructed and assembled as described, afford a bill fold with a bill compartment 26, formed between the outer wall 10 and the means 21, 24, which form the true inner wall.

wall comprises longitadinahy spaced end no respect to which the end sections freely slide, when the bill fold is opened and closed. The inner wall end sections are connected by the tabs 19 to the flaps 12 and are for all practical purposes a part thereof, as if nade integral therewith. The flaps 12 connect orie side edge of the outer wall to the opposite and mil -adjacent side edges of the inner wall end section s whereby I secure the advantages of the construction set forth in my U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,741,009, dated December 24, 1929. At the same time, by making up the inner wall in end and intermediate sections, with provisions for relative sliding movement between such sectional also secure all the advantages pointed out in the aforesaid copending application.

The present invention is distinguished from the prior inventions, above identified, by the provision of the parts 22 as an addition to the flaps 12. These members, being secured to the flaps 12, are for all practical purposes a part thereof and serve, as heretofore, by cooperating with the walls 21 to form the open endedtubular sections in which the ends of the intermediate section 24 are slidably received. There is, however, a decided advantage, from the manufacturer's point of view, in the construction described, because the two overlapping sections 12 and 22 afford between them a pocket 27 for the reception of cards and the like. While articles, such as cards, can be inserted between the section 22 and the intermediate section 24, the pockets, thus afforded, are not so conveniently accessible because they are open merely at one end and because the open end of the one pocket is in close proximity to the open endof the other pocket. Also, the use of the last described spaces as pockets is objectionable as likely to interfere with the freedom of sliding movement between the sections 22 and 24. The present arrangement affords pockets, to which free access may be had, since the parts 12 and 22 overlap only partially and each pocket is open both along the top and along one end. Thus, the invention solves the problem of providing pockets in a bill fold of the general type shown in my prior patent and application.

The invention has been disclosed herein, in an embodiment at present preferred, for illustrative purposes, but the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description.

What I claim is:

1. A flexible pocket receptacle, comprising, an outer or back wall, inner wall forming means composed in part of a member doubled along substantially its median line and having its folded edge disposed parallel and adjacent one side edge of said outer wall, a flap connected to the opposite edge of said outer wall and extending over the front face of the front section of said member to said folded edge and having an extension passing around said folded edge and secured to the back face of the back section of said member adjacent the upper and outermost corner thereof, means for connecting one end edge of the outer wall to the adjacent end edge of said flap, and an extension from the opposite end edge of said flap folded around the adjacent end edge of the front section of said member adjacent the lower and innermost corner thereof and secured to the rear face thereof.

, k 1,924,910 sections 21 and an intermediate section 24, with 2. A flexible pocket receptacle, comprising, an outer .or back wall, inner wall forming means composed in part of a member doubled along substantially its median line and having its folded edge disposed parallel and adjacent one side edge of said outer wall, a flap connected to the opposite edge of said outer wall and extending over the front face of the front section of said member to said folded edge and having an extension passing around said folded edge and secured to the back face of the back section of said member adjacent the upper and outermost corner thereof, means for connecting one end edge of the outer wall to the adjacent end edge of said flap, and an extension from the opposite end edge of said flap folded around the adjacent end edge of the front section of said member adjacent the lower and innermost corner thereof and secured to the rear face thereof, said flap having an approximately oblique edge extending from one of said extensions to the other and exposing part of the front section of said member.

3. A flexible pocket receptacle, comprising, an outer wall, inner wall forming means cooperating with the outer wall to form a receptacle and composed in part of a member of flexible material doubled along substantially, its median line and superposed on said outer wall near one end thereof with its folded edge disposed parallel and adjacent to one side edge of the outer wall, a

flexible flap superposed on said folded member of such corners disposed near said end of the outer wall and said folded edge arid the other remote from said end and near the second named side edge of the outer wall, said folded member except for said secured corners being free of connections to said outer wall and flap.

4. A flexible pocket receptacle comprising an outer wall foldable about a transverse line intermediate its ends to enable one part to be superposed upon another and an inner wall, said walls aflording between them a bill receiving compartment, said inner wall consisting of longitudinally spaced sections which are carried by the outer wall and move therewith when the same is folded about said line and which are located one on each side of the latter and a member bridging the gap between said sections and slidable in a longitudinal direction relatively to at least one thereof when said outer wall is folded about said line, one of said sections having two pocket- .forming walls between which one end of said outer wall and folded over and upon the outer of said pocket forming walls to provide an unconstricted runway along which the lower edge of said member may slide freely, means for fastening one end edge of said flap to the end edge of the outer wall, and means for securing said pocket forming walls against displacement from their position between said flap and outer wall.

WARNER R. BUXTON; 

